LIVE IN LAKE COUNTY, MICHELLE MEREDITH, WESH 2 NEWS. THE HIGHWAY PATROL SAYS IT WANTS TO TALK TO FWHOEKZ STOPPED NEAR THE SCENE OF A DUI CRASH INVOLVING AN ORANGE COUNTY DEPUTY SUNDAY NIGHT. 50-YEAR-OLD OFF DUTY KEVIN MEYER WAS IN FULL UNIFORM AND DRIVING SOUTH ON 535 WITH HIS EMERGENCY LIGHTS ON WHEN TROOPERS SAY HE RAMMED INTO THE BACK OF ANOTHER MOTORIST. HE REPORTEDLY TOLD INVESTIGATORS HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO A SECOND JOB. NOW INVESTIGATORS WANT TO KNOW IF HE MIGHT HAVE TOLD POTENTIAL WITNESSES TO LEAVE THE SCENE. BOB KEALING JOUNS US WITH MORE. THE LATEST WRINKLE IN THIS INVESTIGATION INVOLVE WHAT'S THE CAMERAS, THE FHP DASH CAM DID NOT SEE. IN FACT, IT HAPPENED BEFORE THEY EVEN ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. THE QUESTION NOW IS, DID THIS DEPUTY SERGEANT TELL POTENTIAL WITNESSES TO LEAVE? I AM PLACING YOU UNDER ARREST FOR DUI. WOULD YOU TUSH AROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. BEFORE THE SERGEANT WAS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF D USHS I, THE WOMAN WHOSE CAR HE IS SUSPECTED OF CRASHING INTO SAYS NUMBER OF OTHER MY MOTORIST STOPPED. AND IN AN UNUSUAL TWIST SHE CLAIMS MEYER THE MAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE THE SUSPECT SPOKE TO THOSE MOTORISTS WHO LEFT. AN FHP SPOKESWOMAN SAYS THEY WANT TO LOCATE AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF MOTORISTS WHO STOPPED ALONG THE SCENE AFTER THE ACCIDENT. DID THEY ACTUALLY WITNESS THE CRASH AND WHAT DID SERGEANT MEYER SAY TO THEM SHORTLY BEFORE THEY LEFT? WHAT EXACTLY DID THEY SAY TO HIM AND WHAT DID HE SAY BACK? CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY RICHARD HORNSBY SAYS THE ANSWER TO THOSE WHO QUESTIONS COULD DETERMINE WHETHER MEYER MAY BE IN ADDITIONAL TROUBLE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE DUI HE IS FACING. HE IS GOING TO RUN INTO BIG PROBLEMS IF HE WAS USING THE OFFICIAL POLICE CAPACITY TO ORDER WITNESSES AWAY FROM AN ACCIDENT THAT HE CAUSED. BUT THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE HE SAYS IF THE MOTORISTS ASKED IF EVERYONE WAS OKAY. IF HE WAS RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS IS EVERYTHING OKAY, THE PEOPLE LEAVE ON THEIR OWN, THEY DIDN'T FEEL ORDERED, HE IS PROBABLY ALL RIGHT. THERE WAS NO ANSWER TODAY AT THE WINDERMERE HOME OF THE OTHER DRIVER INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT. FHP SAYS MEYER ALSO DECLINED TO GIVE A BREATH SAMPLE THERE AT THE SCENE. MEANING THAT HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE SUSPENDED FOR A YEAR. ALSO THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SAYING HE'S BEEN REASSIGNED TO ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES WHILE THIS INVESTIGATION CONTINUES. ALL NEW AT 5:00, WHAT PENALTIES HE COULD BE FACING ABOVE AND BEYOND THIS DUI IF INDEED HE DID TELL WITNESSES IN SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM TO LEAVE.